Massive Waste of Planetary Space?

[gregebowman]

I don't think it's that useless. ONce I discover this technology, I'll usually start putting on planets, except for the ones that I've already filled up. For those, I'll make mines, weapon platforms and satellites to guard my planets. But if I have a big planet with lots of room to put stuff on, then a planetary shielf would be nice. Also, if I have a planet on the edge of my empire, then I include a shield to make sure no one destroys my planet.

[Fyron]

The planetary shield is fairly useless. It does not generate enough shield points and costs too much to be effective. If it made, say, 10 times the amount of shields it does now, and they were phased instead of unphased, it might be useful. Or 5 times and half the cost...

[Alneyan]

I believe it is indeed useless. What use is 5,000 non-phased shield points? PPB would disable this facility, and even regular weapons could destroy the shield fairly especially. (I won't even speak of the planetary bombs, these ones should destroy the shield in no time) The only use would be to protect your planets against a single raider, but that is a bit expensive for such a purpose. And it won't repel a bigger offensive.

[jimbob]

typical example of an imbalance easily rectified by moding

[Baron Munchausen]

This is the beauty of Space Empires. You can mod it yourself with little trouble because all the settings are in text files! Sure, set it to produce 25,000 shield points and reduce the cost by half or so. BTW, there is apparently no difference between the 'planetary shields' ability and regular shields, so you could make it produce phased shields, as well.

[Suicide Junkie]

P&N has six levels of planetary shield tech.
The first three give 20k, 50k and then 75k phased shields.

The other three are researchable without finding ruins, and are weaker Versions of the above.

[se5a]

well we could get aaron to make it more worthwhile in the next patch???